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#241 Morgoth

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Posted 15 October 2018 - 06:48 AM

I saw Anderson .Paak in Oslo .. two years ago? maybe. I'm not a hip hop guy, but I really enjoyed the concert.

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#242 QuickTidal

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Posted 14 November 2018 - 06:16 PM

I can listen to this shit on repeat.

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#243 Macros

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Posted 15 November 2018 - 07:18 AM

How many copies do I have to buy to make this number one on the billboard?

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#244 Aptorian

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Posted 15 November 2018 - 12:49 PM

I'm hardly a fan of rap but this is not a very good track is it? I mean sure, Cube has a great flow and attitude, but the actual lyrics and the beat is pretty boring and generic. Besides the chorus and a few jabs it doesn't seem on point.

#245 polishgenius

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Posted 15 November 2018 - 07:58 PM

I like the beat fine and that but...

Listen to this instead it's better. Even though it's got nothing to do with Trump.

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#246 QuickTidal

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Posted 16 November 2018 - 02:15 AM

Alternative Goose, on 15 November 2018 - 12:49 PM, said:

I’ll be over here while Cube comes by to smack the taste out of Apts mouth for being disrespectful to an OG.

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PG, ohhhhh we going Brit? How about some Stormzy then?

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#247 polishgenius

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Posted 16 November 2018 - 05:49 AM

QuickTidal, on 16 November 2018 - 02:15 AM, said:

PG, ohhhhh we going Brit? How about some Stormzy then?

Hmmm I wonder if a popular long-running British sci-fi show might have influenced your choice of song there?

(have you see his take on one of Drake's AM/PM instrumentals? Great stuff)

And why yes, we are going Brit. Brit is where the action's at right now.

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#248 QuickTidal

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Posted 16 November 2018 - 01:57 PM

polishgenius, on 16 November 2018 - 05:49 AM, said:

QuickTidal, on 16 November 2018 - 02:15 AM, said:

PG, ohhhhh we going Brit? How about some Stormzy then?

Hmmm I wonder if a popular long-running British sci-fi show might have influenced your choice of song there?

I will freely admit this is entirely the case....but the good news his that I liked it SO much that I looked up other Stormzy stuff after, and other Grime tracks in general. Some really creative stuff there!

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#249 Macros

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Posted 16 November 2018 - 02:44 PM

If we're going British you can't look past Professor Elemental

http://youtu.be/eELH0ivexKA

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#250 QuickTidal

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Posted 16 November 2018 - 03:36 PM

Macros, on 16 November 2018 - 02:44 PM, said:

If we're going British you can't look past Professor Elemental

http://youtu.be/eELH0ivexKA

What did I just watch?!

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#251 TheRetiredBridgeburner

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Posted 16 November 2018 - 03:51 PM

QuickTidal, on 16 November 2018 - 03:36 PM, said:

Macros, on 16 November 2018 - 02:44 PM, said:

If we're going British you can't look past Professor Elemental

http://youtu.be/eELH0ivexKA

What did I just watch?!

But have you heard about his Fighting Trousers?

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#252 QuickTidal

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Posted 16 November 2018 - 04:03 PM

And this has resulted in a YouTube hole I fell down that of course arrived at the Rubberbandits...

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#253 polishgenius

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Posted 16 November 2018 - 05:37 PM

QuickTidal, on 16 November 2018 - 01:57 PM, said:

and other Grime tracks in general. Some really creative stuff there!

Yeah, grime's exploding right now. Which is good to see because it nearly all went pear-shaped and disappeared after its initial rise in the mid-2000s when labels and artists misjudged how they should go about trying to go mainstream. Now it's happened without any dance-rap compromise, and it's great.

QuickTidal, on 16 November 2018 - 04:03 PM, said:

And this has resulted in a YouTube hole I fell down that of course arrived at the Rubberbandits...

Ha. But did you fall as far as Goldie Lookin' Chain?

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#254 Macros

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Posted 16 November 2018 - 06:32 PM

GLC actually have a few albums out and I've (for some reason) seen them live, they were surprisingly entertaining.

Rubberbandits were actually number one in Ireland with 'Horse outsider's. A timeless classic

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#255 worry

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Posted 16 November 2018 - 07:04 PM

Let's talk about how adorable it is when grime fans insist it's not a branch of hip-hop, but a totally distinct musical lineage that just happens to have superficial similarities, like it was parallel evolution. Wow, how did that happen!

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#256 polishgenius

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Posted 16 November 2018 - 09:03 PM

worry, on 16 November 2018 - 07:04 PM, said:

I mean... they're not completely wrong? No-one should be pretending that hip-hop wasn't a big influence on grime and you can call it a subgenre if you really want to, especially since hip-hop is a waaaaaay broader term and most grime artists these days make non-grime songs half the time anyway if someone's being really purist about the definition- but you can totally trace the non hip-hop influences of grime too. Even I know that and I know fuck all about it. Ultimately, both have a big carribean influence, apart from anything else.

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